Alfreton Angling Centre

Specie: striped bass Location: Plum Gut, Long Island, New York This 21lb 8oz striped bass was caught out of Plum Gut, Long Island, New York. A truly scary place to fish in a small boat. It took a drifted live eel and provided one of the most persistent, dogged fights I’ve yet encountered. I would…

Trophy Room for Ian Wakeford Specie: pike Weight: 23.6This is a late sumer pike from a local gravel pit of 23.6, I was tempted into a weeks carp fishing by a friend, but after two days got bored and went piking. I’m glad I did. Specie: pike Weight: 32.10This pike weighed 32.10, and is my…

But I do have several photo’ albums, and occasionally I glance through them and remember much of my lifetime of angling. Just one picture can bring back so many memories, as the brain’s ability to wander from thought to thought multiplies that one picture into many others. Flashbacks!For example, I found a picture of my…

Heavy groundbaiting is usually carried out with a large amount of breadcrumb as groundbait, either brown or white. I personally have never found any difference in either colour though brown has a more prominent smell to us as humans and there may be truth in the possibility that a carpet of white groundbait scares fish…

Picture the scene. A mate and I had decided to meet up for a couple of days on quite a high profile carp water about half-way between our respective homes in Suffolk and Bristol. It was mid-Summer and the weather was hot, so it didn’t take us long to find plenty of fish laying up…

Modern carp fishing is still in its infancy over there but though the British influence has been a major factor in the development of French carp fishing, the French themselves have been quick to embrace the concept of the bivvy, bedchair and boilie approach to carp fishing and nowadays a widespread No-Kill policy is strictly…